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I have prepared a PDF that includes the information in the new WebSite Basics section of the main site. I am offering this as a FREE DOWNLOAD for those who might be interested.

The PDF contains the content of the articles in the Basics section. If you are interested in owning a website but do not have much experience there may be information that would be of value for you. If you download the PDF you may also wish to share it with your friends. While it would be nice to send them a link to the download page, you could attach a copy of the PDF to an email and send it to them.

This is the first PDF that I have produced. I downloaded the Open Office productivity suite and installed it on my computer. Open Office is an open source productivity suite that includes functions similar to Microsoft Office. It has the added functionality of exporting to PDF. This process proved to be painless and so the PDF was born. If you would like to download your copy visit the Before You Buy a Website main site today.

Thanks, and enjoy your download. Feel free to comment either here in the blog or through the comment section on the main site. Tell me if the PDF helped in any way.

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The link problem was not quite as bad as I first thought. I had a typo in my link that I posted with the article. The first link is still broken, but I uploaded a page with the typo file name, so the second link in the article does work. The article is still at the end of the list and does not show in the list of recent articles. There are supposedly over 200 instances of this article directory but few of the articles that I checked (I did only check a few) have been read more than a few times. Many on my page show 0 or 1 for the number of views. I suspect that those showing a 1 show it because the author viewed his own article one time.

I also paid a bit of attention to the links in the footer box. These all appear to direct to pages put up by the directory owner. YouTube had pulled a couple of the videos and at least one other link is broken. This is an interesting concept. The major benefit, if there is a major benefit for anyone, seems to be to the owner of the directory. I am not so sure that I approve, but I will observe for a while more before I pass a final judgment. I did do a search and did not turn up complaints on the subject, but perhaps I did not dig deep enough.

I posted an article to my article-exchange directory last evening. This was an article that I wrote to promote my site Gemstone Jewelry Now.

There is minimal instruction on the site as to posting procedures, just the various input boxes for title, description, article body, and resource box. I screwed up on the format for the resource box and ended up with no working links. It appears that the software does recognize an URL in the standard format and that you can use html to put in anchor text, but I will need to try again to be sure. There was also no space between the end of the article and the beginning of the resource box info. I will try adding a couple of spaces at the end of the article next time.

My major complaint with the directory software is that it dumped the article at the end of the category. I should go back and check to see if that is still the case, possibly the owner of the database can check an article off and it will move to the top of the list. Another thought that I had was that the broken links may have flagged the article and sent it to the end of the line. If this is really the way that the software works there is not much hope of a direct click to a site from the article even though it appears many times. Users are not likely to make it to the end of the category unless they know that the freshest content is at the end. This is the reverse of the way that every other article directory that I have seen works. The pages may still get indexed and the links count, but I would expect no direct traffic.

This may be a good thing for the directory owner as his articles may appear on page one for any category, but for those others adding content promotion would be the only way that I would expect the article to be viewed. The owner of the directory does give instructions on how to list the articles on RSS feeds (something other article sites do automatically).

I do need to go to my installation and make some further observations. At this point the jury is still out on the utility of these article directories. They have not been in place long enough to see if they produce any traffic either directly to the site or due to articles posted to the directory. I will have another update when I have some more thoughts on this topic.

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I ran across a free script for an article directory and installed on my site, The World SoapBox. I will be watching the results as I have some questions about how this script operates.

The database for the script resides on a remote server. The script calls for the content over the Internet. I do have some news feeds and they do get indexed, so maybe the articles will be indexed as part of the site. The pages of this and all WordPress blogs are called from a local database and the pages are built by the script at the time when there is a request, but they get indexed. I am hoping that these articles get indexed as content on my site.

There are several things that I will be keeping my eye on. I will try to post a report when I have enough information to draw some conclusions.

Check out the World SoapBox Article Directory and tell me what you think.

I am a member of the KompoZer forum. There was recently a case where a domain name had expired and been purchased by someone in Russia. This is a case of cybersquatting almost certainly. I am writing up the details in an article on the main site, so I will not present all of the details here.

CyberSquatting has been going on almost as long as the Internet has been in existence. There are various ways in which this is carried out. I have an earlier article that discusses another aspect of cybersquatting, although that case was more a matter of speculating in a domain name. The topic is addressed by various governing bodies. It is possible that the current case could be resolved through an Icann procedure, but it may be more trouble than it is worth in this case.

Have you had any experiences with CyberSquatting? What are your thoughts on the subject?

As I was out strolling the web this evening my attention was drawn to another web basic that I had not specifically discussed in the Website Basics section. I had a page on navigation, but basic to navigation is the link system. I wrote up an article on the topic and posted it to the Website Basics section this evening. I expect to find a few more topics and I am soliciting suggestions for basic topics that I have not covered.

Leave a comment in this blog and you will get a do follow link. Follow the instructions in the comment section to get a good keyword link to your site.

I have just uploaded the last few pages for the current phase of this website update. There are about 15 new pages on the site at this point. I will try to revisit the site soon to add even more content.

The history of this site is this. The site was originally developed because an acquaintance bid on a couple of sites on ebay and won the auction. He had no idea of the mechanics of the web or Internet Marketing. He bought into the line that he could own these ‘money making’ websites. I think that he has made some small change with his purchase, but probably not up to the level of the dream. I wanted to provide some information that might alert prospective buyers about some of the practices that go on on the web.

I  did not have much content on the site and there was really little reason for people to visit the site. Since the information that I had on the site was aimed at new hopeful Internet Marketers I decided to expand the scope of the site to include all who are thinking about building or owning a website. And so . . . The Website Basics section was born.

I originally considered just a few pages to cover the material, but one thing lead to another. As I was writing some of the content I would think of another topic that should be discussed and some other features that should be added to the site. So now, phase one of the re-purposing of this site is now on the web. Stop by the main site to see the update: Before You Buy a Website

This blog is now ‘do follow’ and uses KeywordLuv so leave an honest comment and get a backlink. I do have the blog set so that I manually authorize comments. Your quality comment will show up when I check it off. Thands

I have just finished installing a Do Follow plug-in and the KeywordLuv plug-in on this blog. I do have comments set to manual approval for all posts, so a comment will not appear until I do approve it. I am pleased that you checked out the blog and I invite you to leave a quality comment that expresses your opinion on the material in the blog or on the main site. I have also installed these plug-ins on my blog on my Selling on Your Website site.

Thanks!

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Some of the update is completed and on the web. I have added several pages of content and tweaked some other things. The problem with adding content is that there is always some other idea that pops into my mind as to other things that would be of value to the site.

There are several new items in the left nav pane. The items in the list that are not linked are items that I plan to write soon. I also redid the top and bottom nav bars and added some pages to both of them. I plan to submit the Keyword article to Ezine Articles for consideration. Check it out now on the main site: Before You Buy a Website

I am doing an update to this site. I have added a For Sale Page (as soon as it is uploaded). I am doing some other site tweaks and adding some additional content as well. I want to improve the quantity and quality of the information available here. Check out the main site for the additions:  Before You Buy a Website